Everything posted by KenONeill
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Recommend a trickle charger?
Large South American River sell at least 30 different models.
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Dipped Beam Adjustment
OK. To adjust them properly needs a beam aiming machine. Every MoT station will have at least one, and most will do this job for maybe £15.
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Dipped Beam Adjustment
Have you checked the adjuster setting inside the car? You could get this effect by setting it to "full load" rather than "one up".
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Skoda octavia black smoke !
The OP posted exactly once, 6 years ago.
- Rear passenger door seal, leaking in.
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Best way to "buy" an electric car?
I've seen that argument before, and it presumed that the retained value of the EV was much higher, that fuel duty would not be charged on electricity, and ignored any cost of financing the deposit.
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Poor tyre wear?
Same with V@*xh@11s, at least until the mid-1990s.
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Rob's Ur Quattro
Respect to the guy who sent you the rain deflector! And brilliant video.
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Kamiq Mirrors, improving the view.
Are they adjusted correctly? Aim to see the side of of your vehicle in your own mirrors. I do find glass, repeat glass, blind spot mirrors in the bottom inside corners of door mirrors effective. I can't figure out how you can see a head restraint in a door mirror.
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Poor tyre wear?
My father did once buy the "Fleet Manager's car" from a Citroen dealership. The punchline is that he was our next door neighbour, and it really was his company car for 3 months.
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Radiator/Engine fan working?!
By design (no judgement on whether this is a Bad Thing or a Very Bad Thing) the temperature gauge reads 88 to 90 whenever the engine temperature is between 70 and 110 degrees. "Steam" coming off the bonnet above the radiator can just mean a hot bonnet and conditions where the evaporated water is promptly recondensing when it rises a few inches. I'd expect to hear the fan on "high" too, but experience says "this rarely happens" on the road. I can't quote numbers, but there are fan fuses yes. Or you can put that air con on, open the bonnet and see if one or both fans are turning over on slow.
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Unhappy looking coolant
No it wasn't; it was a sure sign of water condensing in the rocker cover though.
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Bonnet adjustment?
Yes and no. You adjust the bonnet to wing gaps sideways by slackening where the hinges are bolted to the bonnet and swinging it fractionally. The height adjustment you seem to want is probably effected by screwing the left hand bonnet stop/buffer lower.
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Best way to "buy" an electric car?
Exactly; you'll look like a van or taxi driver all the time you have it.
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Poor tyre wear?
So you do ~5_000 miles per month, and don't check tyre wear patterns about every week!?
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Am I being a bit thick or……
What warranty, if any, are Large River offering on a battery bought through them?
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Is this the right tool to remove spark plugs?
I prefer a suitable plug box for my half-inch socket set.
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Climate control conundrum
Have you checked the strip fuses on top of the battery box?
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Fabia with no spark
That's perfectly normal for a diesel. And if you have a petrol engine you either get the fault codes read or start throwing money at it.
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Clutch pressure
That doesn't mean the slave isn't leaking. You can get an internal leak which loses pressure on the slave piston without losing fluid from the system. To test this:- Start the engine on level ground. You'll see why. Select first or reverse gear and leave your foot on the clutch. Wait 5 minutes and see if the car starts to move off (or stalls). If it does, then you have a slave cylinder leak.
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Travel Assist option on Scala
You don't want "Lane Enforce" anyway. It will try to force you to drive in the middle of lanes at all times, even when wear ruts plus standing water make driving to a side of the lane a safer option.
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Lazy starter
Well, there's part of your answer. Are you still using the original battery, and when was the last oil change?
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Does Sport Mode have any effect on steering?
Yeah, what are your actual tyre pressures? I've heard this before with people running so-called "eco" tyre pressures.
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Glow plug light flashing, MIL light on, start-stop system fault
Probably. I would suggest getting a deep load test done on the battery. At least in the UK, you should be able to get this done for free, conditional on that company getting the business if, as I suspect, you need a new battery. This might well cure all your issues.
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Mk1 VRS soot / map issues
Yes; neither of them will make any difference to soot from a diesel, which is caused by over-fuelling.